Feb 08, 2004 00:09
"The fusion of all cats is that large, scattered chunk of cat-stuff which is composed of all the cats there are, and nothing else. It has cats as parts. There are other things that have all cats as parts. But the cat-fusion is the least such thing: it is included as a part in any other one. It does have other parts too: all cat-parts are parts of it, for instance cat-whiskers, cat-cells, cat quarks. For parthood is transitive; whatever is part of a cat is thereby part of a part of the cat-fusion, and so must itself be part of the cat-fusion."
--David Lewis (who is some guy that I've never heard of, but my teacher quoted in class. :) )
Also: I would love to have a cete of badgers.